Hernán Cristante

Hernán Cristante
Personal information
Full name	Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino
Date of birth	16 September 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	La Plata, Argentina
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team
1989–1993	Gimnasia de La Plata
1993–2010	Toluca
1994–1995	→ Platense (loan)
1996–1997	→ Newell's Old Boys (loan)
1997–1998	→ Huracán (loan)
2011–2012	U. de G.
Total
International career
1989–1995	Argentina
Managerial career
2016	Tepic
2016–2019	Toluca
2021	Toluca
2022	Querétaro
2022–2023	Juárez
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino (born 16 September 1969), known as Hernán Cristante, is an Argentine professional football manager and former player.

Club career

Cristante began to play professionally in Argentina in 1990 with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. In August 1993 he was transferred to Club Toluca, Mexico and in 1994, he returned to the Argentine team, Club Atlético Platense. In 1995, he returned to Toluca for one year, then in 1996, he joined another Argentine team Newell's Old Boys of Rosario. The following year he played for Club Atlético Huracán of Argentina. In 1998, he left for Toluca, and has been playing there since. In 2002, Cristante completed his training to become a professional coach, and in 2004 he opened the Centro de Formación Deportivo Hernán Cristante (Sports Training Center) with the goal of developing young soccer talent. In 2007, he played his 500th professional game, and is currently the number one foreign player in Mexico for total number of games played in the Primera División. He had a serious knee injury and was released from Club Toluca in June 2010. He has been nominated four times since 1999 as the best goalkeeper in Mexico.^{[citation needed]}

Record

Cristante set a record of not conceding a goal for 772 consecutive minutes on 4 December 2008, during a 0–0 draw against Santos Laguna.

International career

Hernán Cristante was part of Argentina's Seleccion Nacional on three occasions, in 1989, 1992, and again in 1995, and was a member of his nation's squad for the 1995 Copa América; in total he made six appearances for the national side.

Honours

Player

Gimnasia y Esgrima

Copa Centenario de la AFA: 1993

Toluca

Notes

External links

Official website
Rolando Hernán Cristante Mandarino at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
Hernán Cristante – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
Hernán Cristante at National-Football-Teams.com
Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI^[usurped] (in Spanish)